Buddhist practice is not to eliminate life's problems but to grow with them patiently and with compassion.

The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

The Buddha taught that wealth does not bring happiness and security. The pursuit of wealth is a matter of living in balance.

Time passes unhindered. When we make ourselves better, we make the world better.

The real secret of the arts: always be a beginner.

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

Meditation is like catching a fish. If you try to catch it quickly, you'll miss it. If you have patience and know how to wait, the fish will come.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived, how well we have loved, how well we have learned to let go.

The force of the kindness of others is so strong, we can't possibly measure it.

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world.

To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfection.

Awareness is always with us. We don't need to create it or achieve it - we just need to recognize what's already there.

Life is like a cup of tea. It's all in how you make it.

The path of practice requires both faith and wisdom, both devotion and understanding.

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

When you recognize that pain and suffering are impermanent, you become free.

The spiritual journey begins with the recognition that beneath our surface happiness there lies a deep inner pain.

The Dhamma unfolds in accordance with a definite sequence: faith, virtue, learning, generosity, wisdom, and insight.

The true person is not anyone in particular. But like the deep blue color of the limitless sky, it is everyone, everywhere in the world.

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

The teaching is simple: act with kindness and compassion. If you cannot do this, at least try not to harm others.

You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can't solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside.

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

Mindfulness is the key to transformation. It enables us to see our experience as it really is, free from distortion and bias.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.

Knowledge must be stabilized by meditation. Without meditation, knowledge is like a child in battle.

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities.

The dharma is not outside of you. Looking for it elsewhere is like placing a Buddha on your head while searching for him everywhere else.

The restraint of the senses is not a matter of suppression but of wise attention to our experience.

The mind is like a wild monkey, jumping here and there. But through meditation, we learn to see whatever arises in our mind with more spaciousness and clarity.